The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-03-26
CHlNA.s FUTURE POLICY.
The Greatest Chinese Statesman Writes OF
Significant Changes.

Significant Changes.
Considerable numbers of Chinese
lave at different times been forced to
leave their homes and push their for.
tunes in the United States, Cuba, PERT
and in the British colonies; but this
must be imputed rather to the poverty
and ruin in which they were involved
by the great TAPPING and Mohammedan
rebellions than to the difficulty of find
ing the means of subsistence under or
binary conditions. In China's wide
domains there is room and to spare for
all her teeming population. What
China wants is not emigration. but
proper organization for the equable
distribution of the population.
Recognizing not only the economi-
cal but also the military reasons for the
colonization of these immense outlying
territories, the Imperial Government
have of late been encountering cen
trifugal movement of the population in
certain thickly inhabited portions OF
the empire. But the occupation OF
waste lands is not the only agency to
absorb any overflow of population
which may exist in certain provinces.
Another and a more permanent one
will consist in the demand which will
soon be afforded by the establishment
of manufactures, the opening of mines
sad the introduction of railways. The
| number of hands which these industries
| will an,,N1Axr nplu no aannaivya1
when we remember that hitherto they
| have contributed nothing to the sup
| port Of the country, and that were they
developed to only 1.-THE of the extent
to which they exist in Belgium and
| England, among a population of 30O,-
| 100000, the numbers of mouths they
would feed would be enormous.
But to render justice where justice is
due a disposition has of late been mani
tested by foreign governments to give
the Chinese adequate protection against
the rowdy elements of their population,
and to recognize the right of the Chinese
subjects to the same immunities as those
which by the law of nations are awarded
to the subjects of other powers. The
| United States Government on recent
occasion theoretically suppressed hos
tile movement directed against Chinese
and awarded them compensation for
the losses to which they had been sub
| jected. The knowledge that the Imper-
ial Government is determined in the
future to take good care of the welfare
of its foreign-going subjects may go far
toward insuring their receiving hence
forth the treatment which by the law of
nations and the dictates of humanity is
due from civilized nations to the
stranger living within their gates.
Any soreness which China may have
experienced on account of events in
1860 has been healed over and forgot
ten years ago, but it is otherwise with
the treaties which were then imposed
upon her. She had then to agree to
conditions and to give up vestiges of
sovereignty which no Independent ma
ton can continue to agree to and to lie
out of without an attempt to change
the one and recover the other. The
humiliating conditions imposed on
Russia with regard to the Black Sea in
1856 had to be cancelled by the treaty
of London in 1871. In the alienation
of sovereign dominion over that part of
her territory comprised in the foreign
settlements as the treaty port, as well
in some other respects, China feels that
the treaties imposed upon her a condi-
ton of things which, in order to avoid
the evils they have led to in other
countries, will oblige her to denounce
these treaties on the expiring of the
present decennial period China is not
ignorant of the difficulties in which
this action may involve her, but she is
resolved to face them rather than to
incur the certainty of some day having
to encounter greater ones-evils SINH
lar to those which have led to the land
of the Fellah concerning nobody so lit
tie us the Khedive. "-MGrquiS ISeng,
in ASiat5c ReUieW.